Streetmekka Viborg: Breathing New Life into Abandoned Industrial Buildings 

 -  urbanNext  December 6, 2022 
 - 690 words 
<br/><br/> Low Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms 
<br/><br/>Active Public Spaces, Adaptive reuse, Community, Concrete, Denmark, Glazed façade, Heritage, Industrial context, Playground, Post-industrial Landscape, Project, Reprogramming, Steel, Street Culture, Urban landscape, Urban Legacy, Viborg 
<br/><br/>Location: Viborg, Denmark<br/>Area: 3.170 m2 + 2.000 m2 landscape<br/>Year: 2018<br/>Photography: Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST 
<br/><br/> The existing building originally served as a windmill factory and is a typical example of one of the many mass-produced warehouse or factory buildings from the late 1960s and 70s found in almost every suburban industrial zone in the western world. Typically constructed from prefabricated concrete panels or corrugated steel, these industrial leftovers are perceived as having little or negligible historic, cultural and architectural value. 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>2575-5374 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Denmark Active Public Spaces Street Culture Urban landscape Adaptive reuse